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I totally get your point and I agree. I think fundamental point is not to use such things as excuses not to do things at all.

I think he meant "you shouldn't skip gym just because you don't have a trainer. Gym is worth doing, so it's even worth doing badly (without a trainer)"

What if my website isn't published yet? Is it possible to run this locally for a locally deployed website/webapp.

> Which finally ends the conversation with me saying, "Well then you asked me to solve an irrelevant problem, so I'm happily providing you an irrelevant answer."

So how many of those companies made an offer?

Why do I have the distinct feeling you haven't had kids yet and treat them as aliens (or new players to an MMO)? Yes a certain level of self awareness is most important (you'd be surprised how many uneducated kids don't even know what country they live in) but the whole thing is a VERY gradual process.

Hahah very interesting game. My compliments to your brother

I think one of the factors you are missing is that we haven't had dyslexia all our lives. We have read the unscrambled version so much that the scrambled versions rarely deter us from reading at normal speed. But a real dyslexic never had that chance so their struggle is far greater. It's like when you come across words you don't know or can't guess. Even when you stare at the word for quite some time, you can't make sense of what it is.

Works for me. The "article" is super short anyway. The walled part barely adds anything

I think the requirement is that ONE of the languages be the person's native language. Because language is so much more than just language, its also about culture. As another commentator pointed out , "cool" can mean so many things, which are in both similar and different at the same time. You need to understand culture to understand these differences.

Yes, English isn't my native tongue but I understand it just as well as a native would, but how many non-native languages can I have such a deep understanding of? I can translate from my native tongue to english and vice versa, but translating between two non-native languages perfectly seems like too difficult a task. Even if I am great at it, its possible that a native speaker of one of the lanugages would be better at it than me

I am one of those people who feel the reddit UI sucks and needs a make over. I really appreciate simplicity and minimalism but I don't feel reddit gets it right. For example, HN is extremely minimal, but it's also extremely clean. It's very intuitive.

Personally, I feel even 4chan is much cleaner than reddit (yes I know 4chan uses linear threads while reddit supports branching. Hence the HN example)

I think every field has its own subset of language that makes most sense to them. I am sure a lot of words that make perfect unambiguous sense to tech people, would confuse non-tech people who would say "why don't you simply say it like..."

The term "vertical" seems to be common amongst executives. I first came across the term when my father asked about the verticals of companies I was applying to. It appears to mean "line of business" or "field of work" or "subset of market". For example a company catering to textile industries, banks, pharmaceuticals, would have these "verticals".

So "content verticals" immediately made sense to me as "subsets of the content they produce".

PS: "we're deepening our reach into multiple markets by adding new content verticals." makes perfect sense because executives really do see the move as moving into multiple markets (or market segments) as each new magazine caters to a different class of people

>Blogging with an onscreen keyboard is painful

I used to think that. But then i got the hang of it and now I do most of my writings on my tablet

> What do you do for a phone?

I don't have the use case for an expensive phone or even a data plan. I have a low end smart phone ($70) that I use mostly for just texts and calls. Even my whatsapp is on my tablet (needs manual .apk as playstore won't let you do this).

I am at my desk most of the day (office), so all Internet related things I do on desktop. After work hours I have my tablet at home so don't really need my phone for much else. Have a desktop at home as well.

My anecdotal evidence points the other way. My own Ho dv6 gave me a good 4 years of running.

- Yes, the crapware is unavoidable. but who doesn't ship with that?

- For me the system restore worked like magic. I tried it a bunch of times on my own machine and those of some friends. The machine was virgin again with just a click of a button.

- It's also very easy to get into. Very helpfully labeled; tons of guides available online. It's like its designed to be opened and hacked around. When it finally died, I scavenged it for parts and ported to my new desktop machine

My personal solution is a desktop and a 7-inch tablet. Sure the tablet loses some of the power as compared to a laptop, but huge portability gain. And it fits my use case. I don't write code while on the move. I do that at my desk. For all other use cases like consumption of data or even blogging, the tablet works.

Am I the only one that read the title and thought this was Pacman the game? I am surprised they let you use the name for something else considering it's supposed to be highly copyright-protected.

Sidenote: I am having trouble finding the link to an explanation what this really is. any help?

I think you are missing the point. The financial support is cozying up to whoever will win. Obviously its not a free donation. The investor will eventually seek payback by having a higher voice in legislative matters.

For example, motorcycle driven rickshaws were recently banned in Pakistan. The official statement says they were unsafe and a menace to society. But it doesn't take a genius to see that other forms of public transport (such as buses) stand to gain from this decision and must have had something to do with it.

PS: Public transport is largely owned by private parties in Pakistan.

The free slot thing is brilliant. Levels the playing field to some extent and removes the need for candidates for relying on outside investors

Thanks, seems like an interesting read. Will look into it.

Anybody tested the thing out?

This is a good illustration for why I feel democracy is fundamentally broken.

Democracy requires a large number of people to agree on on party/person and to reach these people and to convince them to vote for your candidate, you have to spend tons of money. Either:

A) You use your own money. Which means you fall under "the financial elite".

B) You take money from financial elites, which means you will owe them and pay back in some form. Why else would they give you their precious money?

Thus the power remains restricted to the the financial elite. The elected candidate represents the elites more than the common person because while the common person just gave the candidate a singular vote, the investor gave the candidate much needed money that helped gather all those votes

Does anybody have any idea why is it that way? Considering the obvious threat, why haven't they tried shifting away from there? I agree an entire city can't be moved, bu the "Capital" nature of it can be.

it doesn't seem to be working. it's stuck on a "do you want to delete this idea" opened in front of a "congratulations! we wish you the best of luck" opened in front of "after you click launch..." (at this point, I stopped deleting div elements to find out what's behind dialog number 2)

I don't find anything wrong with this. You need to remember while the cat is an important stakeholder in the system, the executive stakeholder is the cat owner (he pays the bills) and thus he needs to see the value. Thus the app is to keep the owner in the loop and show them stats about the cat's activity.

I love how you can download individual chapters instead of the entire book

I found it interesting how Maleficent trailers all somehow use the movie footage to make her seem evil, where as the movie is actually about her NOT being evil. So the in that pre-release material didn't spoil anything at all.

My coworker and I happen to have a very strict One Slime schedule. Even slack bot knows about it and gets excited

From wikipedia:

> 1 eighteen-sided die with the numbers "1" through "16" and characters meaning "win" and "lose" [not listed in the inventory]

> Twelve faces of the die are numbered 1 through 6 in a form of ancient Chinese writing known as "seal script." Each number appears twice on the die while two faces were left blank, the researchers noted.

if numbers 1 through 6 each appear twice on a twelve sided die, how do they leave two faces blank?

I think this idea misses a key element: "People are in love with their current watches". Someone who isn't willing to trade their watch for a smartwatch, isn't going to be ok with trading their strap either. Each dial has a different strap, and its part of the "watch" that they love.

> The only winner in my mind is the FitBit or similar

Care to elaborate? While I do see that non-watch-lovers would see the value in fitbit, but I dont see a traditional watch-lover wearing FitBit along side his usual watch. The Chronos was a very specific market in mind: People who love mechanical watches, but would like some extra functionality in the same watch. They don't want a ring, a bracelet, etc. Chronos caters to them while being as unobtrusive as possible. I personally think that's a brilliant move